Overview of the events of 1965 in British television
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This is a list of British television related events from 1965.
Events
January
February
March
April
- 7 April – BBC1 airs Three Clear Sundays, a Wednesday Play about the events leading to a man's conviction for capital murder.[3] It is repeated on BBC2 on 16 July.[4]
May
June
- 18 June – The last edition of Tonight is broadcast on BBC1.
- 24 June – BBC1 begin showing the popular US spy series, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., starring Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo and David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin.
- 27 June – The last episode of science-fiction marionette series Stingray is broadcast on ITV.
July
August
- 1 August – Cigarette adverts are banned from British television. Pipe tobacco and cigar adverts will continue until 1991.
- 6 August – The War Game, a drama-documentary by director Peter Watkins depicting the events of a future nuclear attack on the United Kingdom, is controversially pulled from its planned transmission in BBC1's The Wednesday Play anthology strand. The BBC has been pressured into this move by the British government, which does not want much of the play's content to become public.[5] It is released to cinemas, and wins the 1966 Academy Award for Documentary Feature; the BBC finally screens the play in 1985.
September
October
- 2 October – American science-fiction series Lost in Space debuts on ITV, it is later adapted for the feature film version in 1998 and then again for the revived television series in 2018, after the original series ends in 1968.
- 4 October
- 24 Hours premieres on BBC1.
- Football-based drama serial United! premieres on BBC1.
- Science-fiction anthology series Out of the Unknown premieres on BBC2.
- The BBC announces plans to introduce a new service for Asian immigrants starting the following week.[7]
- 10 October – The BBC Asian service, broadcast on Sunday mornings, launches with a programme called In Logon Se Miliye and at the start of 1966 it is renamed Apma Hi Ghar Samajhiye. Later in the decade it is called Nai Zindagi-Naya Jeevan and in June 1982 it is renamed and relaunched as Asian Magazine.
- 18 October – The British version of children's stop-motion animation The Magic Roundabout, with narration by Eric Thompson, debuts on BBC1; it continues until 1977.
- 31 October – BBC2 in the North of England goes on the air.
November
- 4 November – The current affairs and documentary series Man Alive makes its debut on BBC2.
- 8 November – American sitcom My Mother the Car debuts on ITV; it becomes known for negative reception.
- 13 November – The word "fuck" is spoken for the first time on British television by the theatre critic Kenneth Tynan on satirical chat show BBC-3.
December
Undated
Debuts
BBC1
BBC2
- 18 January – Hit and Run (1965)
- 27 January – Night Train to Surbiton (1965)
- 11 February – Naked Island (1965)
- 21 February – The Mill on the Floss (1965)
- 22 March – A Man Called Harry Brent (1965)
- 5 May – Call It What You Like (1965)
- 9 May – The Scarlet and the Black (1965)
- 13 May – Londoners (1965)
- 13 June – The Rise and Fall of César Birotteau (1965)
- 9 July – Legend of Death (1965)
- 11 July – Jury Room (1965)
- 31 July – Gaslight Theatre (1965)
- 8 September – A Slight Case of... (1965)
- 2 October – For Whom the Bell Tolls (1965)
- 4 October – Out of the Unknown (1965–1971)
- 7 October – Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965–1973)
- 17 October – Call My Bluff (1965–1988, 1994, 1996–2005)
- 17 October – An Enemy of the State (1965)
- 4 November – Man Alive (1965–1981)
- 5 December – The Big Spender (1965–1966)
ITV
- 2 January – World of Sport (1965–1985)
- 19 January – Front Page Story (1965)
- 23 January – Public Eye (1965–1975)
- 23 February – Mr and Mrs (1965–1988; 1995–1999)
- 27 February – The Worker (1965–1970; 1978)
- 13 April – Orlando (1965–1968)
- 30 April – Six Shades of Black (1965)
- 8 May – Undermind (1965)
- 2 June – Pardon the Expression (1965–1966)
- 11 June – The Man in Room 17 (1965–1966)
- 16 June – Deckie Learner (1965)
- 2 August – Riviera Police (1965)
- 11 August – Six of the Best (1965)
- 21 August – Broad and Narrow (1965)
- 21 August – The Frankie Vaughan Show (1965–1966)
- 10 September – Blackmail (1965–1966)
- 30 September – Thunderbirds (1965–1966)
- 1 October – The Addams Family (1964–1966)
- 2 October
- Lost in Space (1965–1968, 2018–2021)
- Knock on Any Door (1965–1966)
- 19 October –Object Z (1965)
- 8 November – My Mother the Car (1965–1966)
- 13 December – The Power Game (1965–1969)
- 16 December – Court Martial (1965–1966)
- 25 December – The Bruce Forsyth Show (1965–1969)
- Unknown
- Flipper (1964–1967)
- Peyton Place (1964–1969)
Television shows
Changes of network affiliation
Continuing television shows
1920s
- BBC Wimbledon (1927–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–2024)
1930s
- The Boat Race (1938–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–present)
- BBC Cricket (1939, 1946–1999, 2020–2024)
1940s
1950s
1960s
Ending this year
Births
- 4 January – Julia Ormond, British actress
- 9 January – Joely Richardson, British actress
- 14 January – Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, English chef
- 15 January – James Nesbitt, Northern Irish actor
- 27 January – Alan Cumming, Scottish actor
- 22 February – John Leslie, television presenter
- 26 February – Alison Armitage, English model and actress
- 11 March – Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen, British television presenter
- 22 March – Emma Wray, actress
- 30 March – Piers Morgan, British tabloid journalist
- 4 April – Sean Wilson, British actor
- 21 April – Jacquie Beltrao, sports presenter
- 26 April – Juliet Morris, presenter
- 27 April – Anna Chancellor, British actress
- 29 April – Rosie Rowell, actress
- 3 May – Michael Marshall Smith, novelist, screenwriter and short story writer
- 17 May
- 19 June – Simon O'Brien, television actor and radio presenter
- 4 July – Jo Whiley, broadcast music presenter
- 8 July – Matthew Wright, journalist and television presenter
- 6 August – Mark Speight, British television presenter (died 2008)
- 16 September – Lorne Spicer, presenter (Cash in the Attic)
- 24 September – Sheryl Gascoigne, television personality
- 14 October – Steve Coogan, British comedian and actor
- 15 October – Stephen Tompkinson, British actor
- 31 October – Rob Rackstraw, British voice actor
- 4 November – Shaun Williamson, British actor
- 10 November – Sean Hughes, English-born Irish comedian (died 2017)
- 12 November – Eddie Mair, British BBC radio and television presenter
- 16 November – Mark Benton, actor
- 21 November – Alexander Siddig, Sudanese-born actor
Deaths
See also
References
- ^ "RTÉ Libraries and Archives: preserving a unique record of Irish life". RTÉ.ie. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
- ^ "Not Only.... But Also – – BBC Two England – 9 January 1965 – BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- ^ "The Wednesday Play: Three Clear Sundays – BBC One London – 7 April 1965 – BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- ^ "Encore: Three Clear Sundays – BBC Two England – 16 July 1965 – BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- ^ Chapman, James (2006). "The BBC and the Censorship of The War Game". Journal of Contemporary History. 41 (1): 84. doi:10.1177/0022009406058675. S2CID 159498499.
- ^ "BBC-2 Comes to Wales – BBC Two England – 12 September 1965 – BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
- ^ "Immigrants feel at home with BBC". BBC On This Day. 1965-10-04. Retrieved 16 May 2009.
- ^ Mark Duguid "Armchair Theatre (1956–74)", BFI screenonline
- ^ "What the Papers Say in pictures". The Guardian. 29 May 2008. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
External links
- List of 1965 British television series at IMDb